Category: Fiction, flash story
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Halo – Port Haven – 3
Military Calendar – June 23rd, 2520Oort Cloud, Pegasus II Cryosleep always felt like drowning in ice. The first breath after three months suspended in frozen stasis tore through Sergeant Roman Tucker’s chest, followed by a violent cough. His body convulsed, expelling the thick nutrient sludge that had sustained him. The foul sputum splattered across the…
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The Legend of Zelda and The Twisted Key – 1
There, I was staring at the light that shone from behind the chancellor’s chair. I am in the spotlight. The feather clad Flappers stare down at me from on their high eyries. The sewer crawlers, Zorans, beneath the city they make their dwellings in the undercity lakes and rivers. The Sprouts, the child-like folk that…
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Hurry up and Wait
I was told that joining the army was a good thing. That serving . country was a high honor. But ever since I joined back in 1968, my whole career with the military has been defined by four words. Hurry up and wait. I volunteered and almost immediately tension rose and I was sent to…
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Grinds my gears
You what grinds my gears? Married people that go to individual therapists. They would rather pay someone to listen to all their secrets and trauma than tell the person that is supposedly the other half of their life. You don’t keep secrets from your spouse that will only lead to more trauma and drama that…
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Reclaiming the Sea – Daring the Pacific
Daring the Pacific The waters of the Pacific ocean were as treacherous as the men that sailed it. If the proverb held true in World War Two then not even a hundred years would change it. Commander Elliot Pike stood on the bow of the resupply frigate, the Endeavor. After the so much of the…
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Silent Crack
The world started to end the night the moon cracked. It wasn’t an audible crack, but the way that the world stood still and watched as the moon cracked and crinkled. The whole world stood still and with one gasp everyone united and began to pray. There was no agnostics, no atheists, all men, women,…
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Tom’s Giant
Tom had gotten lost when the wildfire had taken his campsite. Rain had come and wiped out the fire. The mist that had settled above the tree line, forced him to climb to gain his bearings. He began to climb the mountain side, it was there that he found a rudimentary tower fashioned out of…
The In Constant Chronicles 